PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes: > SELECT to_date('20000-1131', 'YYYY-MMDD'); > ERROR: 22008: date/time field value out of range: "20000-1131"
What exactly do you find wrong with that? November doesn't have 31 days.
Sure, we could have a discussion about the probability of the Gregorian calendar still being in use 18000 years from now, but it doesn't seem very profitable. What else do you want to use?
The request is to fix our documentation to use a valid date for the example in the paragraph that describes the separator requirement for years greater than 4 digits.
In to_timestamp and to_date, the YYYY conversion has a restriction when processing years with more than 4 digits. You must use some non-digit character or template after YYYY, otherwise the year is always interpreted as 4 digits. For example (with the year 20000): to_date('200001131', 'YYYYMMDD') will be interpreted as a 4-digit year; instead use a non-digit separator after the year, like to_date('20000-1131', 'YYYY-MMDD') or to_date('20000Nov31', 'YYYYMonDD').
